Word: remo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gambling with the paraphernalia of roulette and baccarat was allowed to be resumed in Italy, last week, but at only one resort, San Remo, which is only 20 miles east of Monte Carlo on the Riviera. When Senator Corrado Ricci interpellated Signor Mussolini, last week, as to why San Remo alone was favored, the Dictator rapped...
...quite true that other seaside resorts would like to follow San Remo's example, but their wishes will not be fulfilled. . . . For very strong reasons of a political and economic nature a special exception was made in favor of San Remo, but the exception in this case also serves but to prove the rule...
...DARK GENTLEMAN-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Setting her eye about at the level of the kennel doors at the Casa Lucceola, which is near San Remo on the Riviera, Author Stern relates with considerable finesse certain events that took place there in March, a fortnight or so before the feast of St. Sirius, the Dogstar. . . -. Pekoe and Baloo, the haughty chows from down the hill, were oddly enough the first to wind anything. They told Golden Toes that his mother, Rennie, was looking beautiful and young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish...
Died. Mohammed VI, Sultan of Turkey 1918-22; at San Remo, Italy, of heart disease...
...control of these regions there has long been considerable confused rivalry among European interests, rivalry which was seemingly set at rest by the San Remo treaty of 1920. This left the U. S. out of consideration and was so vigorously protested that the British, French and Dutch interests eventually permitted the U. S. a quarter share of the work and rewards. But one Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, Armenian banker, millionaire and onetime business agent of defunct Sultan Abdul Hamid, held a neat 5% of the Turkish Petroleum Co., under whose 75-year exploitation concession the internationals intended to operate...